One story by this author centers on a donkey who is repeatedly undervalued due to its bichromatic coat. Another donkey-centric story by this author of "Story of the St. Joseph's Ass" contrasts the seriousness of a donkey's death with Meno's matter-of-fact reaction to the death of his wife Nunzia. Before writing "The Orphans", he'd abandoned his law studies to write novels like In the Lagoons and A Sinner. One novel by this author is titled for a peasant landowner whose daughter with Bianca Trao marries the free-spending Duke di Leyra, who ruins him. Another novel by this author, adapted into the (*) Visconti film La Terra Trema, sees ‘Ntoni become a smuggler in an effort to recover the Malavoglia family's fishing boat. For 10 points, identify this author of Maestro
One story by this author centers on a donkey who is repeatedly undervalued due to its bichromatic coat. Another donkey-centric story by this author of "Story of the St. Joseph's Ass" contrasts the seriousness of a donkey's death with Meno's matter-of-fact reaction to the death of his wife Nunzia. Before writing "The Orphans", he'd abandoned his law studies to write novels like In the Lagoons and A Sinner. One novel by this author is titled for a peasant landowner whose daughter with Bianca Trao marries the free-spending Duke di Leyra, who ruins him. Another novel by this author, adapted into the (*) Visconti film La Terra Trema, sees ‘Ntoni become a smuggler in an effort to recover the Malavoglia family's fishing boat. For 10 points, identify this author of Maestro-don Gesualdo and The House by the Medlar Tree, whose story ending in a duel between Alfio and Turiddu, "Cavalleria Rusticana", was adapted into a Mascagni opera.
One story by this author centers on a donkey who is repeatedly undervalued due to its bichromatic coat.
{Giovanni Verga}